Archive - Lucas Gage

Why Omni-Traits Make Your God Impossible

Here’s a question that seems simple until you press on it: if a being knows everything, does it actually know anything?

1 hr ago • Lucas Gage

Traditional Values Don’t Require God

The American right, broadly speaking, has long grounded its ethics in religion.

16 hrs ago • Lucas Gage

Why the Parasite Class Uses Reverse Colonization

For centuries, the mechanism of empire was outward-facing.

Apr 13 • Lucas Gage

SDS: Science Derangement Syndrome

There’s a strain of epistemological dysfunction spreading through certain corners of the political landscape.

Apr 12 • Lucas Gage

The Pareto Principle, Political Power, and the Masses

The reality is a grassroots revolution isn’t coming.

Apr 7 • Lucas Gage

Introducing the Secular Right

Born in Italy, I came to America when I was two and was raised Roman Catholic.

Apr 5 • Lucas Gage

Universal Endeavors

I saw a clip of the Artemis II rocket climbing into the atmosphere and felt an unexpected feeling of joy.

Apr 2 • Lucas Gage

March 2026

Why Peace Is Impossible—Even in Heaven

You can never eliminate your opposition completely, because opposition is woven into the fabric of reality itself.

Mar 29 • Lucas Gage

The Truth Does Not Set You Free

One of the greatest lies ever told is that the truth shall set you free.

Mar 27 • Lucas Gage

Political Design: Why Utopia is a Death Sentence.

There’s a question that political philosophers have been evading for centuries: is conflict something to be solved or something to be designed around?

Mar 21 • Lucas Gage

In-Group vs. Out-Group Dynamics in a Multicultural Democracy

I want to discuss the nature of in-group versus out-group dynamics in a multicultural democracy such as the United States and the West in general.

Mar 17 • Lucas Gage

A Dialogue on Language, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

I do a lot of philosophizing with AI, typically with Gemini, which acts as my interlocutor in real-time.

Mar 13 • Lucas Gage

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